Word: swollenness
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Four years ago, after her husband became governor of Oklahoma, Mrs. Johnston Murray complained that her swollen right hand was nearly paralyzed from shaking hands with more than 100,000 persons along the campaign trail. But that was nothing to faze red-haired Willie (Roberta) Murray. No sooner was she well settled in the governor's mansion than she started holding weekly open houses, standing at the front door and clicking off (on a counter concealed in her left hand) the assorted Indians, oil drillers and schoolmarms who trooped past. By last count. Willie's tabulation had passed...
...Justice William O. Douglas wore the air of a missionary savoring a particularly satisfying conversion of the heathen tribes. Some of his 37 original companions (TIME, March 29) had dropped out (only eight walked the whole way with Douglas), and a good many more were physically reduced by blisters, swollen ankles and aching muscles. But along the way, even the Washington Post's Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey (who walked 140 miles) and Robert Estabrook (150 miles) had become enthusiastic admirers of nature...
...This swollen sense of the past, says Woodward, comes partly from the fact that "history has had to serve Americans as a source of the folklore, myth and legend that seem essential to the spiritual comfort of a people in time of stress. Other nations were born to the heritage of a long and misty prehistoric past that proved a limitless source of myth and legend. But the American past belonged entirely within the historic era. After celebrating their independence, Americans . . . discovered that having banished King George they had lost King Arthur, and along with him a host of patron...
...hunting date in Capocotto with Piero Piccioni." Three days later she returned to Rome, and she and Ugo drove down to the hunting lodge. There the gamekeeper's wife remarked that she had seen Wilma's body and was surprised that it was not swollen or battered. Anna Maria Caglio felt a sudden suspicion. She thought back to a time three months earlier when she had followed Ugo and another woman in a car. From the news pictures she was now sure that the woman had been Wilma Montesi...
With all the talk about Italy's No. 1 threat−Communism−not much is said about another ailment which works on Communism's side. The other sickness: statism. This leftover from Fascism stultifies free enterprise in business and perpetuates a swollen bureaucracy in government. Last week Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's aged and respected political priest, addressed himself to the problem Italian politicians prefer not to talk about. Said Don Luigi...